The Kony 2012 campaign devised by the not-for-profit organisation Invisible Children is a powerful demonstration of the potential of social media as a political campaign tool, according to a CSU academic.

A CSU politcal expert believes Bob Katter's Australia Party is now a third force in Queensland politics with the LNP's landslide victory in last weekend's election.

A study by CSU researchers has found that people often experience social disconnection, loneliness, and desperation when residential aged care is inaccessible to them in their rural communities.

The spiralling rise in shooting crimes in Sydney's western suburbs requires strong and sustained political, community and police action to make suburbs safe for the public, according to a CSU senior policing lecturer who lives in one of the affected neighbourhoods.

In commissioning the TV documentary 'I Can Change Your Mind About Climate', to be broadcast on Thursday 26 April, the ABC has been duped by the climate change denier tactic of doubt-mongering, says Professor Clive Hamilton, the Vice-Chancellor's Chair of Public Ethics at CSU.

Research that questioned the effectiveness of public funding for repairing environmental damage over the past 20 years has resulted in mixed answers, says a lead researcher in the recently completed Landscape Logic project, CSU's Professor Allan Curtis.

A CSU resources expert has discussed the trade-offs involved in the proposed transfer of water to the environment in the proposed Murray Darling Basin Plan in a public lecture.

A senior CSU academic has been appointed to a national board to advise the federal government on climate change policy in Australia.

A new book by a CSU academic argues that Europe's first farmers were ruled by an elite aristocracy who passed themselves off as 'gods', and may have commanded secret knowledge that included ambrosia which extended their life spans.